{"id":128421,"date":"2022-07-30T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128421"},"modified":"2022-07-29T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:06:12","slug":"shoot-down-sanfrannan-uh-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128421","title":{"rendered":"Shoot Down SanFranNan? Uh, no."},"content":{"rendered":"

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OK, that is not a picture of Nancy Pelosi from her younger days. I just wanted to see if you were paying attention.<\/p>\n

A Chinese writer, Hu Xijin, a ‘journalist’ (read: propagandist) for the state-owned Global Times, has stated that if Pelosi does visit Taiwan and her plane has a fighter escort that it would be an “invasion” and that warning them off, firing warning shots, or even shooting them down would be justified. And we thought we were the only ones with journalist issues.<\/p>\n

If US fighter jets escort Pelosi\u2019s plane into Taiwan, it is [an] invasion,\u201d tweeted<\/a> Hu Xijin, a columnist for the Chinese Communist Party-controlled Global Times. \u201cThe [People\u2019s Liberation Army] has the right to forcibly dispel Pelosi\u2019s plane and the US fighter jets, including firing warning shots and making tactical movement of obstruction.<\/p>\n

Taiwan\u2019s status was addressed when President Biden spoke Thursday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to readouts<\/a> by both governments.<\/p>\n

During the discussion, Xi warned Biden that \u201cthose who play with fire will perish by it,\u201d according to Beijing\u2019s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would not confirm or deny whether the Chinese leader threatened the president, telling a reporter at her briefing Thursday, \u201cI\u2019m not going to speak to that statement, that comment that you just read out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Biden said last week that the US military believed a Pelosi visit to Taiwan was \u201cnot a good idea now,\u201d but Republicans led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) say the speaker<\/a> would hand China \u201ca victory of sorts\u201d if she backs down. McConnell\u2019s wife, Trump administration Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, was born in Taiwan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf ineffective, then shoot them down,\u201d Hu added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NY Post<\/a><\/p>\n

You know, unless a foreign dignitary is involved in REALLY SERIOUS stuff like terrorism (you reading this, Iran?) their personage is pretty well sacrosanct anywhere in the world, and assassinating one is an open act of war. Might recall a certain fella named Ferdinand whose death started WWI?\u00a0 Now, journalists, especially working for state organs, do not just pop off and say things like this without offical clearance – well, conceivably, off-the-cuff when they shouldn’t, but generally the sort of government who uses journalists as unofficial propaganda mouthpieces are pretty unforgiving, too, and mouthy reporters wind up covering Miss Yak-Milk 2022 conventions in Lower Slobolvia in short order.<\/p>\n

So this looks like an official trial balloon intended to twist Biden’s tail a bit more. As is, if he tells her not to go, he looks weak and ineffective. If she goes and the Chinese do anything rude, even a close mid-air brush, without retaliation, Biden looks weak and ineffective. I’m starting to see a pattern here. (Most likely rational outcome if she does go: US fighter escort to Taiwanese air space, then a hand-off to a large force of Taiwanese fighters. Just a guess.)<\/p>\n

Regardless, it is a rule: do not mess with our people. It’s one thing if they smuggle weed-laced vape in where it’s illegal, it’s another to mess with someone who is legitimately in line to be the President. She may a power-mad past-her-best-sell-date crone… but she’s OUR power-mad past-her-best-sell-date crone.\u00a0 Just like the guy mouthing off about his ugly wife in the bar – WE can talk shit, you cannot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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